Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-09-02
VOLUME XXVII-NUMBER 40. @
San Francisco Letter.

Fruit from all parts of the Pacific
Coast States pouring int .,.,n Fran
cisco in larger quantities than the city
can handle with anything approaching
profit. The markets are glutted, and
peaches and grapes are offered for sale
on the streets at ruinously low prices.
The apparent over-supply is owing,
simply, to a scarcity of labor. The
fruit Gamers are receiving far more
order than they can fill, and many of
them complain that much of the stock
sent to them by the growers is rotting
upon their hands, because they cannot
get sufficient help to pack it, though
unusually good wages are paid. The
Gamers have refused to fill any more
orders, until the boOms" in real es-
tate, that are alleged to be touching all
parts of the country with the rod of
Midas, have, in some measure, run
their course, and left small and unsuc-
cessful spectators time to reflect that
rich "booms" are only incidental,
while labor is the general lot of man.
Then, perhaps, some of them will be
willing, however sadly, to awake from
dreams of wealth, and return to the
lowly, but not improbable, occupation
of canning fruit. Meanwhile the deal
ers in canned fruits in the East are
growing desperate, because there the
demand is far in excess of the supply.
England. too, is carrying off an enor-
nous amount of this class of goods.
One vessel, loading for Liverpool, has
already slowed away LOO tons Of
canned fruit, and is still taking in car
go, and many other large ships have
been chartered for the same service by
British consignors.
The "boom," by the way, seems to
be visiting San Francisco. At least
Mr.. John Mason, who had hired room
for one night in a lodging house, paid
the dollar demanded of him, and gone
to bed, was told so an hour later, when
his landlord knocked at his door, and,
representing to him that wave of
prosperity had just struck the house,
said that he must pay all additional
! fifty cents for his accommodation, or
step down and out at once. Mason
refused to hear reason, but he got up,
opened the door, and severely damaged
the landlord. For this he was arrested,
and fined ten dollars in the Police
Court. He thinks that eleven dollars
for nights lodging, that he didn'i
get, indicates a marked increase in
values in San Francisco.
The Veteran Exempt Firemen O
San Francisco $50 called on account o
exemption from jury duty, and sucl
services, because they once put Out
fires without remuneration) claim thai
a visit which kindred organization
in New York is to pay to this city mex
month must, of necessity, give a grea
impetus to the march of PROCESS ir
this State, and SO they want money t.
entertain them with hospitality com
mensurate with the good they are ex
pected to do. To this end they hav'
decided to solicit subscriptions, ant
such names as William L. Coleman
William Alvord, A. P. Hotaling, an,
men of that ilk, who have consented t.
pass around the hat, promise az fairl.
as though they were attached t.
checks. that New York's old fire fight
ers will see San Francisco from yer!
favorable standpoint.
Some time ago tolerably genera
protest was raised, both here and il
the East, against certain class G
photographs that were given away t
purchasers of packages of cigarettes
1t cannot be said that the expression
of adverse public opinion was suff
ciently pronounced to stamp thes
pictures out altogether, for they ma
still be seen, attracting no particula
attention, in the windows of many Il
bacconists; but a new and much NOR
pleasing style of souvenir is interestin
. to light smokers. With each package {
"Vanity Fair" cigarettes the buyt
now finds a really artistic origins
photograph of some aristocratic soci'
ty beauty, eminent actress or woma
who have attained celebrity in liter;
ture or art. As these pictures contai
none of the Objectionable feature
J formerly complained Of, it has becon
a sort of craze with many young ladi'
20 fill their albums with them, al
!, they find no difficulty in persuadir
g their brothers, or male TRENDS, 10 su
i ply them for their books.
+ John w. Mackay's valuable service
to the telegraphic interests of Franc
: have led to his being honored after
fashion that would have reused the
of one of the Puritan fathers. II
grateful! French government has MAJ
him an officer of the Legion OF Homo
of the second grade, and decorate
him with the red rosette and the dl
= mond cross. Mr.. Mackay has returne
temporarily, to his native land, al
protests that he is still an America
IC and finds it difficult to make joke
French. He hides his badges OF hont